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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 24, 1910
Page
1
Chicago negotiators announce no strike on railroads west, north and south of Chicago after a conference with Grand Chief Stone and Mediator Neill. A 10 1 3 percent wage increase will be provided, totaling about $3 899 000 annually for engineers, with final terms to be drawn up before signing.
Logan Iowa December 24 Fred Smith and Arthur Norris are in jail charged with robbing John Fleharty at Dunlap. Fleharty drank with the strangers then they waited at the station for a train to Council Bluffs. He woke to find grip valuables and strangers missing. The men were arrested at Council Bluffs.
Harry Jackson, a Hise house employee in West Liberty Iowa, allegedly induced merchants to cash two checks drawn on Citizens Savings bank though he had no funds. Marshal Wiley arrested him at the depot as he tried to board a train. The money was returned and Jackson was released.
Ottumwa Iowa December 24 Hon C A Windle of Chicago president of the National Merchants and Manufacturers association and editor of the Iconoclast will answer Rev Billy Sunday in an address at the Grand Opera House Sunday afternoon.
Fire at 2 30 this morning destroyed the F B Spence wholesale commission house and burned out three Iowa Telephone Company main cables halving service. Origin unknown. Loss set at 5000 dollars.
Appleton Wis December 24 Mrs Anna Lahmann aged 100 years and six months died in Appleton. The longtime resident was among the citys oldest inhabitants and passed away at her home surrounded by family.
Louisville Kentucky December 24 Joseph Wendling convicted December 3 of murdering eight year old Alma Kellner was formally sentenced to life in the state penitentiary today.
In Burlington Iowa a mysterious illness from Russia deprives many children of Christmas joy. Reports exaggerate 2,000 cases. at least 200 youngsters are afflicted with Fifer's glandular fever, starting with a sore neck and swollen glands, then ear infection, possible kidney involvement, high fever, and later rheumatic pains. Some children stay in bed up to five weeks.
Reports vary on exact cold as thermometers show eight to two degrees below zero. Snow blankets some areas while zero weather promises a severe winter Christmas, with a slight warm up forecast for Sunday per the weather service.
Acting Secretary of State Huntington Wilson wired $5,000 to Minister Calhoun in Peking for famine relief in China. The Huar River valley hosts 2,000,000 to 3,000,000 distressed people and the situation may worsen after the Chinese New Year. The Red Cross action follows requests from An hui delegates to the Chinese senate.
Willis King died from internal injuries after being struck on Illinois Central tracks in Logan Iowa. Eva Woodruff who was with him was injured but will recover and depart for Glencoe today.
Carl Hassler of Milwaukee is chosen as the Wisconsin Rhodes scholar at Oxford. Hassler graduated from the University of Wisconsin last June.
Chicago December. Detective Jesse Gilman died after a revolver duel with assailant Gregori Gracie who was killed by Detective William Burns. The double shooting occurred near Ontario and Cass streets as crowds worked home from a busy shopping evening.
Judge Jackson opened the Warman versus Arkansas Valley Land Company verdict finding in favor of intervenor B. F. Fountain of Buffalo Prairie. Fountain sought $1200 from two notes for a jack misidentified in the suit. Mary Leutzinger appeals Muscatine county board of supervisors relocation of the Burlington road.
Searchers fear Cecil S Grace fell into the North Sea after disappearing in fog on a return flight from Salais France to Dover. A vast East Coast car fleet and warships scoured waters as wireless inquiries spread. Grace sought the Baron De Forrest prize of 20000 dollars for the farthest British aeroplane crossing this year.
The financial agent for Cornell college reports steady progress in raising a $400000 endowment. Though not yet ready to announce publicly, officials say the fall and winter campaigns are unusually successful in Mt Vernon Iowa.
In Union Star Missouri a fire destroyed several buildings and 95 year old M H Cochran was burned to death while attempting to escape. The blaze occurred today as authorities investigated the ruins.
El Paso reports the Northwestern passenger train returned after being stopped by dynamited track. Bridges burned from Lena Station to Juarez area. insurgents seized part of the train but passengers were not harmed. In Chihuahua, an American with insurgents says ten civilians including a judge were executed.
Creston Ia Dec 24 The drys win by seven votes after official canvass of consent petition. saloon men say they will appeal to district court.
Civil War veteran and philanthropist Leander Clark, among the region’s wealthiest men, died yesterday at his home in Toledo aged 87. Born in 1823 in Ohio, he helped found a local college renamed Leander Clark in his honor after he endowed it with 150000 dollars. He served as lieutenant colonel in the Iron Brigade and held roles as Tama county representative and Indian agent.
Albert Carlson aged 30 of Lockridge Iowa committed death by his own action by cutting his throat in a friend's room over the Bismarck saloon in Burlington. Ill health was given as the cause.
Former Chicago Police Inspector McCann, convicted of graft, surrendered and will be sent to Joliet next week after a state supreme court mandate ordered his imprisonment. He had planned a Christmas at home with guests.
In Ottumwa Iowa Evangelist William A Sunday denounces whiskey as ruinous to families. He tells about preferring a parlor with a slop bucket over a town with a saloon and urges anti saloon workers to sign withdrawal petitions after his sermon delivered at the First Methodist church. T. D. Foster of Morrell Packing Company introduces Sunday to about a thousand attendees as petitions circulate to defeat a saloon majority of 832.
Merchants weigh closing Monday due to Christmas on Sunday. Many dry goods and shoe stores plan to close tonight and stay shut until Tuesday morning. Clothing grocers hardware firms show varied plans while P M Musser Library and county offices will be closed. Express companies expect Monday deliveries.
J Pierpont Morgan cancels his tradition of giving each close friend a choice turkey after a thief entered his Cragston estate at Highland Falls last night and stole fourteen imported turkeys weighing about 30 pounds valued at two dollars per pound.
Kenton Ohio reports six people found dead in two rear rooms after a gas stove burned without a stovepipe. Police say fumes suffocated four men and two women. the scene includes a restaurant clerk finding victims. In Eccles West Virginia four men died when a bucket overturned at No 5 shaft, dropping 500 feet to the mine bottom.
Washington December 24 Now ready to start the nationwide postal savings bank system on January 3. Forty eight postmasters from each state completed training in the Postmaster General Hitchcock’s office then departed for home. Each is a second class postmaster chosen as the state representative for the bank trial.
Exercises to be held in several city churches on Saturday Sunday and Monday evenings feature special music and youth programs. The German Lutheran church and Park Avenue M E church plan observances tonight, with First Congregational hosting part of The Resurrection by George Noyes Rockwell. Additional programs include German Evangelical Grace Lutheran German Baptist German Congregational First Presbyterian Mulford Congregational and church of the Brethren. Childs Messiah will be performed at First Baptist. Monday night programs occur at German Methodist Friends church First Reformed First Methodist and United Brethren.
Bush Delano longtime master of ceremonies at the Delano hotel and a familiar figure to travelers died in Burlington hospital after a lingering illness. He was widely known in the traveling public and served many years in his post.
James Kilsoye, 18, of Corning, attempts to board a Burlington train as it speeds away. He grips the railing for five miles, his hands freeze, and he falls to the ground. He is hospitalized in serious condition and may die.
Fort Wayne Indiana dispatch reports a head on collision on the Pennsylvania railroad near Nevada Ohio between westbound train No 15 and eastbound train No 4. Six were killed and several injured. The crash is blamed on an eastbound engineer disregarding block signals.
Fresno prisoners from the Industrial Workers of the World caused a water siege in the county jail. A steam fire engine sprayed the cell block, soaking inmates and bedding as speakers tried to reach the outside crowd. The demonstration lasted twenty minutes and ended with the jailers serving bread and water.
Ten thousand dollars worth of diamonds were stolen from a jewelry shop at 717 Vine Street in Cincinnati's business district at 9 p.m. A Chicago man, John Cane, 35, proprietor of the shop, was arrested fifteen minutes later with diamonds found on him. Two rings valued at about 500 dollars were also missing. The thief smashed the window to grab three trays of gems. Cane was found in an alley within half a block.
Johnson County saloon men excluding Iowa City have withdrawn their petition from the board of supervisors fearing a canvass would defeat it. They now gain permission to circulate the petition again throughout the county.
Elmer Paul and George Grimm established a notable record by killing 271 turkeys this week. The total weight reached 4,349 pounds and the birds were delivered to the Davenport market.
The Weather section notes unsettled conditions with snow tonight or Sunday. Warmer tonight and in the east Sunday. Illinois has increasing cloudiness with light snow in the north and central areas tonight or Sunday, with rising temperatures. Sunrise 7 16 sunset 4 24 moonrise 12 30 a m
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